After May of 1865, the UNIONIST PARTY ceases to be. Andrew Johnson was a Jacksonian Democrat
who never joined the Confederacy. He allied himself with the GOP but was not a member of the same.
He ran unsuccessfully as Democrat in 1868. He did not change his political affiliation for any great length of time. Mitch McConnell has actually converted over from Democrat to Republican, he is more
GOP now than A.J ever was at all! Technically.

Never the less he was elected on a Republican ticket.
Republicans targeted him and they had an overwhelming advantage due to the war of Republican conquest, Trump will not face anything nearly so dangerous.

Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

Robert Heinlein

Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

Groucho Marx

I love mankindÖitís people I canít stand.

Linus, from the Peanuts comic

You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

Alexis de Torqueville

Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

I do not equate Andrew Johnson's 8000+ presidential pardons of very prominent Confederates
with the cycle of lynchings from the 1870s to roughly about 1940, that stem from the domestic
terrorism of the KKK and similar organizations. I think some of his POTUS decisions meant that
the 20th Century had less problems, and that he had tried to resolve the deeper issues that had
brought about the Civil War, but the situation he faced had subsumed his better efforts. Just sayin'

When Presidential Reconstruction was phased out, and Congressional Reconstruction took its place,
nothing really improved greatly. Unlike expectations. The amount of power A.J had is greater than
DJT has now, but let's keep in mind Congress became more powerful than any sitting president. I
think MORE power to anyone is not the solution we seek. I think DJT has failed as a leader. He is not
winning, he's blocking an actual consensus from forming that lets us clean house more fairly & justly.

When Presidential Reconstruction was phased out, and Congressional Reconstruction took its place,
nothing really improved greatly. Unlike expectations. The amount of power A.J had is greater than
DJT has now, but let's keep in mind Congress became more powerful than any sitting president. I
think MORE power to anyone is not the solution we seek. I think DJT has failed as a leader. He is not
winning, he's blocking an actual consensus from forming that lets us clean house more fairly & justly.

PENCE/PAUL or PAUL/PENCE does not insult the voters.
Bernie or Hillary might end up with the DNC nod in 2020.
They too can vie for the top spot on a ticket again. If a
clean slate is given to Trump's thieving crew, it's as if we
are close to experiencing what we did after Nixon quit.

I know that Bill Weld is capable of controversies... But it is a valid request.
If I wanted to get more on your good side, I'd humour thy idea. As it is, since
way back in 2010 ole Mike Pence was a RIVAL to Rand Paul, only his current
position abruptly changing for the better actually legitimizes my request, but
if this is premature, this will get staffers around THAHHH Donald very PO'ed.
I run the risk of being thought calculating & rude even as current events look
like 1868 to me. Less so 1973 or 1999. I want to get the GOP to be true to its
roots, I do not want a crypto-fascist revolution to destroy Lincoln's Party at all.

Well, $#@!. Military peoples might be $#@!ed, but alphabet agencies get five years according to this site. Rand's right. Time to end that $#@!..

So, if you are leaving your government job to become a contractor, you likely want to keep your security clearance. Fortunately, you can keep you security clearance after leaving the federal government. A regular Secret Clearance is good for 10 years and a Top Secret Clearance is good for 5 years. Most agencies will accept another agency's security clearance as the basis for issuing their own clearance, as long as the original clearance had not yet expired.

If you leave the federal government entirely and do not become a contractor, your clearance may expire more quickly. The Department of State will only revalidate a security clearance if you have been out of the Federal Government for less than 2 years. The clearance policy of other federal departments and agencies may differ.

I know that Bill Weld is capable of controversies... But it is a valid request.
If I wanted to get more on your good side, I'd humour thy idea. As it is, since
way back in 2010 ole Mike Pence was a RIVAL to Rand Paul, only his current
position abruptly changing for the better actually legitimizes my request, but
if this is premature, this will get staffers around THAHHH Donald very PO'ed.
I run the risk of being thought calculating & rude even as current events look
like 1868 to me. Less so 1973 or 1999. I want to get the GOP to be true to its
roots, I do not want a crypto-fascist revolution to destroy Lincoln's Party at all.

Does this person possess compromising pictures of the site owners? Should have been banned a long time ago.

Does Rand Paul have compromising material on the President? Did he like beat him at golf once and threaten to tell the whole world about it? . I think the next move should definitely be better than this one, he's gotta top this some how, he always does. I thought the whole healthcare buying groups was good but politically poisoning the well(swamp) so they drain it is genius.